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...firemen have it. "How do you feel?" somebody asked. "Great!" said the Rock, 50, and he looked it-chunky, electric, tired but tireless. Way behind entrenched Democrat Averell Harriman at campaign's outset, he was now rated 9 to 5 favorite. "I've done the best I could," said Rockefeller. "Now it's up to the public, the way it should...
...York City by scoring heavily with liberals, independents, minority groups. Rockefeller carried in with him the Republican state ticket, led by upstate Congressman Kenneth Keating, elected U.S. Senator over Tammany-backed Democrat Frank Hogan. Conceded a game Averell Harriman, 66: "I congratulate Mr. Rockefeller and extend to him my best wishes...
...down last week, as delegates from the U.S., Britain and the U.S.S.R. got together in Geneva's Palais des Nations for the widely heralded talks on test suspension. "The U.S.,'" said Ambassador James J. Wadsworth. the U.S. delegation chief and disarmament specialist, "enters the talks in the best possible faith to make the conference a success.'' Said British delegate David Ormsby-Gore: "In a sense we are pioneers...
...bottom of this outburst of African against African last week lay a deep-seated envy and distrust. All through France's West African territories the best positions in government, business and industry are held by industrious citizens from Togoland and Dahomey. Nearly 100% of the Ivory Coast fisheries are in their hands. As more and more Frenchmen leave technical and administrative jobs, Dahomeyans and Togolanders win the competitions to replace them. Explained a French businessman: "The truth is that the people from Dahomey and Togoland are more intelligent, better trained and educated, more disciplined and harder working than...
...same shortage of sponsors for unrehearsed humor also killed the best new comedy show in years. The show: Keep Talking, a zany competition between teams of comic talkers trying to spin out a screwball tale while slipping in a screwball secret phrase that the opposition must spot. Literate and consistently funny, the show was carried by CBS all summer and into the fall without attracting a sponsor. Last week CBS decided that while it still liked Keep Talking, it could not afford to keep paying...